Tax Beast

The Tax Beast takes one tenth of a player's Neopoints.

The Tax Beast is a green imp who travels Neopia collecting a tax from players as part of a Random Event. He first appeared on October 30, 2002. When he appears, he steals ten percent of the Neopoints that the user has on hand. A related monster, the Angry Tax Beast, is a red imp that steals twenty five percent of a user's on-hand Neopoints.

Random Event

There is one Random Event involving the Tax Beast. After receiving this Random Event, the player will lose 10% of the Neopoints that they have on hand, and they will also unlock the Tax Beast as a one-player challenger in the Battledome. Neopoints that are stored in the National Neopian or a Shop till are not affected by this event:

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Battledome

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Weapons Used (In Order Stolen)
Black Frost Cannon	Attack: 20% 3×Water   0 - 2×Physical
Downsize Power Plus	Defence: All×Air Defence  ×Darkness Defence  ×Earth Defence  ×Fire Defence  ×Light Defence  ×Physical Defence  ×Water Defence  (Once per battle)
Stone Snowball	Attack: 6×Earth   1 - 6×Physical   (Once per battle)
Red Scorchstone	Defence: 20 (Once per battle)
Tax Beast Money Bag	Attack: 3×Physical
Tax Beast Shield	Defence: 4×Physical Defence  3×Fire Defence  2×Light Defence
Tax Beast Tooth	Attack: 2×Darkness   2×Earth   0 - 3×Physical
B-308 Tax Form	No effect.

Trivia

• During 2007, the Tax Beast Random Events were re-enabled after being "out of comission [sic] for quite a long time".
• The Halloween Yurble resembles the Tax Beast.

External links

• Gallery of Evil: The Tax Beast
• High Scores: Tax Beast, Angry Tax Beast
• Neopets TCG: Tax Beast, Angry Tax Beast
• Caption Competition: #435 #1100
• Editorial: 64, 85, 99, 102, 104, 168, 314